Sarah Costantino obtained his degree in Chemistry and Pharmacy in 2008 at University of Naples "Federico II". In December 2012 she received her PhD in Experimental Medicine at the Second University of Naples. Then she worked as a Fellow in cardiovascular research at the Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Cosentino and Prof. Thomas F. Lüscher. Her main research topics are epigenetic mechanisms underlying cardiovascular disease in diabetes and obesity. In 2013 she received the ESC Young Investigator Award in Basic Science at the Congress of the European Society of Cardiology. Currently, Sarah Costantino is Research Assistant at the Cardiology Unit in the Department of Medicine of Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm (Sweden).